Common is saying how this battle between Cube and him isn’t like the East vs West where if you where from the West, people on the East would hate you like for example The Source Award 1995:
The imagery here of a grotesque modern beast is reminiscent of the apocalyptic beast in Yeats’s poem “Second Coming”:
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
The people in the crowd had no response, as if Talib’s words and performance were no big deal. Talib is throwing pearls to swine in the spoiled (and over-saturated) NYC rap scene, circa 1998.
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